‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’ Exclusive Clip: Pat Collins’ Latest Film Showcases The Lives Of A Couple In Rural Ireland

It’s always a difficult transition to go from a large city to a much more rural area. And that transition is what helps shape the lives of a couple in the upcoming film, “That They May Face the Rising Sun.”

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With the film making its debut in the U.S. earlier this week, we’re happy to give our readers an exclusive clip from the drama, “That They May Face the Rising Sun.” The film follows the story of Joe and Kate Ruttledge as they move from London to a small community in rural Ireland. While there, they begin to experience a year that will forever change them. 

The film stars Barry Ward, Anna Bederke, Lalor Roddy, Sean McGinley, Ruth McCabe, and Phillip Dolan. The film is directed by Pat Collins, who previously worked on projects such as “Song of Granite” and “Silence.”

“That They May Face the Rising Sun” just had its U.S. premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. You can watch the exclusive clip below.

Here’s the synopsis:

That They May Face the Rising Sun is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among a small, lakeside community in rural Ireland near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in the life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere. That They May Face The Rising Sun is the third full length feature film from Irish auteur director, Pat Collins.